Devils, Angels, and Robots: Tempting Destructive Users in Social Media

Social media sites derive their value by providing a popular and dependable community for participants to engage, share, and interact. This community value and related services like search and advertising are threatened by spammers, content polluters, and malware disseminators. In an effort to preserve community value and ensure long-term success, we present a prototype system for automatically detecting and profiling destructive users in social media. We described the architecture of the system

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2010
• Where: ICWSM
• Authors: Kyumin Lee, Brian David Eoff, James Caverlee
• Keywords: Community Value, Dependable Community, ICWSM 2010, Internet Technology, Social Media